KNOPPIX is a bootable CD with a collection of GNU/Linux software,
automatic hardware detection, and support for many graphics cards,
sound cards, SCSI devices, and other peripherals. It can be used as a
Linux demo, educational CD, rescue system, etc. It is not necessary to
install anything on a hard disk due to on-the-fly decompression.

Window Maker is an X11 window manager designed to
give additional integration support to the GNUstep
Desktop Environment. In every way possible, it
reproduces the elegant look and feel of the
NeXTSTEP[tm] GUI. It is fast, feature rich, easy
to configure, and easy to use. In addition, Window
Maker works with GNOME and KDE, making it one of
the most useful and universal window managers
available.

spectrwm is a minimalistic tiling window manager that tries to stay out of the way so that valuable screen real estate can be used for much more important stuff. It has sane defaults and does not require one to learn a language to do any configuration. It was written by hackers for hackers and it strives to be small, compact, and fast.

Blackbox is yet another addition to the list of window managers for X. It is
written in C++, sharing no common code with any other window manager (even
though the graphics implementation is similar to that of WindowMaker). It
features small code size, a fast interface with simple menus, multiple
workspaces, decorated windows, built-in graphics code to render solids,
gradients, and bevels on the fly, and more.

Enlightenment is a themeable, fast, flexible, and powerful window manager that is designed to be as configurable as possible in both look and feel. In addition, Enlightenment provides an applet API that provides functionality somewhere between the GNOME applet system and Dock Apps from Afterstep/WindowMaker. The current design aim is for Enlightenment to become a desktop shell.

AfterStep is a Window Manager for X which started by emulating the NeXTSTEP look and feel, but which has been significantly altered according to the requests of various users. Many adepts will tell you that NeXTSTEP is not only the most visually pleasant interface, but also one of the most functional and intuitive out there. AfterStep aims to incorporate the advantages of the NeXTSTEP interface, and add additional useful features.

FVWM-Crystal aims to create an easy to use, pretty, but also powerful desktop environment for Linux or other Unix-like operating systems. It uses the following programs: FVWM as a window manager and "main core"; different ways to provide icons on the desktop including support for many file managers and custom commands; xterm, aterm, mrxvt, or urxvt as terminal emulators; MPD or XMMS2 as music players (there's built-in support for controlling these programs), and several other tools for different functions, like setting a wallpaper or taking screenshots.